Exxon Mobil shows off its new campus to investors

Exxon Mobil’s new campus north of Houston will include about “20 buildings designed around a three-acre commons, modeled after the great public squares found in Europe and the United States.” That’s according to the most recent edition of The Lamp, the company’s publication for shareholders, which has an article describing the campus with the above images.

The campus is being developed on 385 acres along Interstate 45 at the Hardy Toll Road. Jim Hennessy, project executive for the Houston campus, calls the project “one of the largest commercial construction projects under way in North America.”

“During a typical day, we have about 3,000 workers on site, 16 tower cranes and hundreds of pieces of mobile construction equipment,” he said in The Lamp.

Other aspects of the campus are highlighted in the article:

Preservation: 80 percent of the campus will either remain in its natural state or be landscaped with transplanted trees, lawns and other plantings.

Sustainability: A typical building on the site will be 40 percent more efficient than comparably sized buildings in Houston. Employees will have personal control of their workspace temperatures and lighting. Campus water usage will be reduced by 80 percent versus a comparable-sized development through collection and reuse of rainwater, air conditioning condensate and other sources.

Energy Center: Shown in a rendering above, this meeting and training facility will feature a 10,000-ton floating cube positioned 80 feet above the plaza and reflecting pool below. An outdoor plaza will be able to house up to 3,500 people for special events.

Employee amenities: A 10,000-square-foot Wellness Center will include weight machines, treadmills and a basketball court. An onsite Child Development Center will provide child care and early-education services for children six weeks to prekindergarten age. The curriculum will focus on science, math and language.

Exxon Mobil employees will start moving into the campus next year with full occupancy slated for mid 2015. About 10,000 employees are expected to work there.

I don’t know. Where are they coming from, isn’t it somewhere around New York City? For one thing, a take it or leave it offer when working for Exxon is your career and you are thinking of retirement is a powerful incentive. Also, Texas offers real advantages in lower cost of living and no state income tax. They move to Texas and they’re already giving themselves a fat pay raise. I would strongly consider taking the offer.

Not really. This has been in the works for years. The corporate office relocating here from Irving is not that large and I bet those execs already spend a lot of time in Houston. There are some employees being transferred here from other parts of the country, but most of the workers in the Woodlands will be employees already working at other EM offices in the Houston area, and bet all of them will make the commute to the Woodlands to keep their job.

ExxonMobil Corporation headquarters is not relocating from Las Colinas in Dallas. That is where Rex Tillerson is. Glad, too. If corp was on campus, security would be much stricter, and so would our dress code.

It’s certainly the reason for the building boom in and around Spring. All the faded, years-old “For Sale” signs on property and land in Spring vanished overnight …especially west of I-45. Housing projects abandoned in 2007-08 suddenly came back to life. Old two-lane roads begging for improvement now have five and six lanes under construction.

I don’t know who designed the thing but it looks like they didn’t take the weather or the places up keep into account. So I guess they think everyone is going to be happy walking from building to building in the heat or rain? It must have been designed by someone in CA.

I move there in the 3rd or 4th quarter of next year. I dread a longer commute but it is going to be one heck of a campus.
One thing i dread is the open concept. But hey I have a job and hopefully able to retire in 6 years.

Seriously, I have no opinion. Good for them, I guess. What’s good for ExxonMobil is good for ExxonMobil, their shareholders, employees, customers, and various countries in which they do business, which includes but is not limited to America. Not quite a catchy slogan, but more accurate.

Exxon Mobil paid $31B in taxes in 2013. There are 35 IRS agents who work full time auditing the company’s books. On a gallon of gas EM makes about 8 cents profit – the rest is the cost of crude oil, exploration, drilling and refining, plus the cost to transport the gas to your pump. There are about 50 cents in taxes in the cost of a gallon of gas.

Right now, in the Greenspoint area, we walk between buildings along the strip center walkways. Have to get in our vehicles to go to other sites in Houston. I hate it when I have to go to a meeting downtown and try to find a parking space for my truck. The new campus will put us all on one site, with covered or enclosed walkways between all buildings.

Not thrilled about open concept, either, and losing half of my office “space”. Or converting to the new headset phone system. The work space was planned to encourage collaboration, but my job doesn’t fit that model. My team is split between here, Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But at least I will be safe if I have to work late and overlap KL hours to work with them directly. Can’t do that now in Greenspoint.

the best thing for Houston in 50 years, no one wants to live here but the jobs don’t give anyone a choice, the Biggest US company relocates its headquarters….who cares if it is 100 degrees with humidty